Pear Almond Cake

Have you ever tried baking with pears? If not, then you must! Very soon… 🙂 My first attempt was this delicious crisp, but somehow I never went beyond it until this recipe occurred. The recipe appeared in one of the Friday magazines. I have this feeling – that if a recipe catches my fancy, then I think about it every time – in my walk, in my talk, even in between my sleeping! This continues till I finally decide to bake it, irrespective of how long it takes for me to do so! This recipe tormented me for so long till I finally bought some pears only for making this cake. The kids and I love the soft pear, which literally melt in the mouth. If we buy the hard pears, it languishes in the fridge. But umma and mattamma (my grandmother) loves them, so whenever they get their fruits, they will buy the hard pear and come. I would only eat them if one of them are ready to peel it and give. 😀

This cake is buttery, and the intermittent flavors of the melting pear and the almonds is really good. I was really not sure whether I would like this but it was so similar to having an apple cake. I was glad that the whole family enjoyed big slices of it over tea. I actually saved up a slice of this to have as breakfast the next day morning. 😉 Since pears have slowly started to come into season, I really suggest you all to try this recipe with whatever is available – you will definitely not regret! Other pear recipes on the blog happens to be only smoothies… 😉

O yeah I have used pear in a cake but it turned out not so good! I love pear hard, soft, tiny, big etc. About the seasonal thing, it is hard for me to find out what is in season as either it arrives late or too early. Like I still see strawberries, and mangoes! and wonder if we are getting the “old” stock here! Lol!
Did you use almond as is?Famidha recently posted…Green Papaya Stuffed Flat Bread | Raw Papaya Paratha

Actually, in the gulf, there is season all the time, because it comes from variety of places… I don’t see much strawberries now, but mangoes yes, a different variety from Pakistan but not so sweet. Now I can see pears coming in trays from Lebnanon, small and soft ones, they come during this time of the year… hehe, otherwise you find the hard Chinese ones most of the time… I have used almond as it is, you can use it any way you want… Thanks a lot Fami…